Quotes About Reading Scriptures

#1. Spirituality is no different from what we've been doing for two thousand years just by going to church and receiving the sacraments, being baptized, learning to pray, and reading Scriptures rightly. It's just ordinary stuff.

Eugene H. Peterson

#2. Self-education begins with the passion to read the Scriptures.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#3. Spiritual awaken comes from reading the Holy Scriptures.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#4. Daily Bible reading and mediation will deepen your understanding of life and God.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#5. You ought to pray and read the Bible concurrently. You cannot pray effectively without reading the Bible and the vice versa.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#6. Devote yourself to reading of Scriptures.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#7. Start each day with thanksgiving, prayer, reading of the Scriptures, listening to music while engage in exercise; you will be motivated for the entire day.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#8. The Bible is the most inspired book of all times.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#9. By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.

Thomas Merton

#10. Truth cannot be given to you; especially if you are following an organized religion, then truth will be as far from you as darkness is from light. Truth is not found by observing rituals, undertaking pilgrimages or reading the scriptures. It is simply a waste of time.

Anandmurti Gurumaa

#11. Through reading the scriptures I realized there was a purpose for my life, that I was created for a reason, that I was significant, that it was my choices that got me to where I was at and that it would be my choices that would get me to where I wanted to be as well.

Christian Hosoi

#12. It would be impossible to learn the lessons the scriptures contain by reading them only one time through or studying selected verses in a class.

Julie B. Beck

#13. Daily Bible reading, path of light.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#14. If we read the Scriptures, we shall renewed our mind.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#15. Religion is not what you will get after reading all the scriptures of the world. It is not really what is grasped by the grain. It is a heart grasp.

Mahatma Gandhi

#16. Reading the scriptures through the lenses of the Law you see God as unapproachable, through the lenses of Grace you see the outstretched arms of Jesus saying "come".

John Paul Warren

#17. Renew your mind daily by reading the Holy Scriptures.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#18. The zeal to pray and desire to read the scriptures can transform many lives.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#19. Pray and learn to pray! Deepen your knowledge of the Word of the Living God by reading and meditating on the Scriptures.

Pope John Paul II

#20. In reading the scriptures of truth, we often put wrong constructions upon them, and apply them improperly; and I apprehend it has often been the case in relation to this portion, particularly that part in relation to man's seeking out many inventions.

Elias Hicks

#21. It is a common temptation of Satan to make us give up the reading of the Word and prayer when our enjoyment is gone; as if it were of no use to read the Scriptures when we do not enjoy them, and as if it were no use to pray when we have no spirit of prayer.

George Muller

#22. To explain God after merely reading the scriptures is like explaining the city of New York after seeing it only in a map.

Abhijit Naskar

#23. The Bible, most influential book, which have the ability to transform many lives.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#24. I suggest a nationwide reading of the Holy Scriptures during the period from Thanksgiving Day to Christmas.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#25. For me, the reading of the scriptures is not the pursuit of scholarship. Rather, it is a love affair with the word of the Lord and that of His prophets.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#26. Through reading the scriptures, we can gain the assurance of the Spirit that that which we read has come of God for the enlightenment, blessing, and joy of his children.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#27. We treasure the word of God not only by reading the words of the scriptures, but by studying them. We may be nourished more by pondering a few words, allowing the Holy Ghost to make them treasures to us, than to pass quickly and superficially over whole chapters of scripture.

Henry B. Eyring

#28. You have to plan it [your devotion to God] every day. And, the best time to plan it is before your day begins. If you don't plan it, your day will plan you. And so, I make a disciplined life of the study of the scriptures, reading the word every day.

Ravi Zacharias

#29. Keep strong and affirm the Scriptures daily.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#30. If we read the Scriptures, God will shine in our heart.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#31. Satan has frightened men from reading the sacred writings, and has rendered Holy Scriptures contemptible, so as to ensure his poisonous philosophy to prevail in the church.

Martin Luther

#32. Mr. Perkins adviseth, in the reading of the Scriptures, to begin with the Gospel of John, and this Epistle to the Romans, as being the keys of the New Testament.

Matthew Poole

#33. I am blessed to receive a word from God every day in receiving the scriptures and reading the scriptures. And God speaks through the Bible.

Ted Cruz

#34. Let the Latter-day Saints be in their homes, teaching their families, reading the scriptures, doing things that are wholesome and beautiful and communing with the Lord on the Sabbath day.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#35. Daily memorise one passage of Scripture.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#36. Does one get faith by mere studying of books? Too much reading creates confusion. The Master used to say that one should learn from the scriptures that God alone is real and the world illusory.

Sarada Devi

#37. Mediation on the Scriptures will renew your mind.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#38. I recall the Scriptures into my mind, therefore, I have hope.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#39. Daily mediate the Holy Scriptures.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#40. Daily mediate on the Holy Scriptures.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#41. I desperate desire to read the Holy Scriptures is spirituality of the soul.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#42. Devote yourself to reading of the Holy Scriptures.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#43. God speak to us through dreams, prayer and reading of Holy Bible.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#44. Some have suffered death to make it possible for us to have the scriptures today. Historically, the scriptures in the Bible were reserved for the clergy, with the reading of them by others being denounced. At times, laws even prohibited the public or private reading of them.

L. Lionel Kendrick